Ram Gopal Varma

“'The Godfather' has been a film which has influenced me a lot.”

“I don't want to answer questions about my favourite food or holiday spot.”

“Sridevi is the most beautiful and the most sensuous woman God ever created, and I think He creates such exquisite pieces of art like her only once in a thousand years.”

“Now a lot of people tell me that 'Daud' was ahead of its times. But when it came out, it was panned more than any of my films.”

“I feel there are only well acted or badly acted roles and no such thing as a good actor or actress.”

“A film sells feelings.”

“I don't think cinema is big or small. It's just good or bad.”

“I understand emotions more than anyone else. I study emotions like a biologist studies various species.”

“With 'Daud,' basically, I wanted to make a very 'Mad Max' kind of a film: that was my original intention.”

“I hate Sridevi. I hate her for making me realise that she, too, is finally only just a human being. I hate that her heart, too, has to beat to live.”

“People favouring their relatives more than an outsider is what the biggest fight in democracy is, let it be in film industry or politics.”

“Everyone can have a crush on anyone, be it on a real person or a celebrity.”

“First of all, 'Sarkar' is not an underworld film. It's about a man at the head of a feudal set-up in the middle of a cosmopolitan city, where he almost runs a parallel government largely due to his personal charisma. And the film is about his friends and enemies and his family.”

“I make movies on gritty topics like crime, the underworld, and horror. I don't make movies with good-looking people in good-looking locales.”

“I think every star was a new actor at one point of time.”

“I don't have the time to think about what someone else thinks of me because I'm busy making films.”

“I hate the word 'break.' It's just a business deal at the end of the day so there's no such thing as giving a break.”

“I think a lot before tweeting. I show it like I don't, but I do. Sometimes I don't mean it, sometimes I mean it, and sometimes I like to provoke a reaction from people. I enjoy reactions from them.”

“My favourite virtue is not having any.”